Validation of a practical guide for healthcare professionals: adherence to tuberculosis treatment.

To validate a practical guide for PHC professionals to guide the approach and contribute to the process of adherence to the treatment of tuberculosis. This was a methodological study, which sought to validate an educational technology by specialists in the subject. An instrument was applied to evaluate the material, which used a Likert scale. For data analysis, the Content Validity Index (CVI) was calculated, whose minimum agreement rate adopted was 0.80. The material was considered validated, with a satisfactory global CVI of 0.86. The study demonstrated that the material has the potential to contribute to the management of patients with tuberculosis since it gathers information from the perspective of people who had the disease and were cured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]